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Today, we're going to take a look at some facts about 90s lunchbox items that make us kind of miss school
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String cheese came from exactly where you think it would. Wisconsin, the land of cheese
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Specifically, it was invented by Frank Baker of Baker Cheese. Taste testers found that the string cheese was easy to snack on
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However, its eventual status as a staple kid's snack wasn't anything Baker had intended
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He once stated, String cheese certainly wasn't targeted specifically to kids. It was meant to be a functional, high-quality piece of cheese you could peel and stretch
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Although he probably wasn't upset about all those kids' lunch sales. The first Capri Sun pouches were manufactured in 1969 in Eppelheim, Germany
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Kids seemed to really take to the drinks' trademark foil pouches. By the 1990s, Capri Sun was a staple of lunchboxes across America
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Despite being the snack's most memorable feature, the plastic spreading utensils that used to be included with handy snacks are no more
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Parent company Ritz explained in 2019 that the red sticks were discontinued in order to be more eco-friendly
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Because most people throw the sticks away rather than recycle them, it also doesn't hurt that cutting the sticks probably saved them a lot of money to boot
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First launched in America's neighbor to the north in the early 1990s
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Dunkaroos are a fiendishly simple lunchtime snack However despite its huge popularity in the 90s in 2012 the treat was discontinued in the United States Luckily order was restored in 2020 and Dunkaroos made their
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triumphant return to the good old U.S. of A. It's time to unroll the classic lunchroom snack and
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ruler substitute, Fruit by the Foot. Debuting in the early 90s, the fruit-flavored snack has been
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a perennial favorite. While Fruit by the Foot does provide a somewhat decent serving of vitamin C
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Time magazine reports that the three-foot treat actually consists of 48% sugar by weight
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Launched as a tie-in product with the Real Ghostbusters animated series, Hi-C's Ecto Cooler offered a delicious orange and tangerine flavor, and it came in a color
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reminiscent of the ghostly Slimer, because apparently kids wanted to drink him? The flavor
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turned out to be so popular, it actually outlasted the Ghostbusters cartoon
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Fruit Gushers, also sometimes marketed as just plain Gushers, are made by the omnipresent Betty
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Crocker, who is not a person but a division of General Mills. The acorn-shaped snacks
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which originally came in flavors like Strawberry Splash and Gushin' Grape, are made from a soft
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chewy candy with a few drops of alleged fruit juice at the center. Despite being one of the
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most popular fruit snacks ever created, Fruit Gushers are arguably more famous for its weird commercials
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As in commercials that feature kids turning into hideous fruit mutants. Or would that be fruitants
